Re: [PATCH v8 11/13] iommu/amd: Don't copy GCR3 table root pointer

From: Baoquan He
Date: Fri Jul 28 2017 - 05:07:07 EST


On 07/27/17 at 05:57pm, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:59:09PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > When iommu is pre_enabled in kdump kernel, if a device is set up with
> > guest translations (DTE.GV=1), then don't copy GCR3 table root pointer
> > but move the device over to an empty guest-cr3 table and handle the
> > faults in the PPR log (which answer them with INVALID). After all these
> > PPR faults are recoverable for the device and we should not allow the
> > device to change old-kernels data when we don't have to.
>
> Okay, forget my previous comment about disabling IOMMUv2 features while
> copying. Its done in this patch.

Yeah, as you said. Thanks.

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